Safety-pocket.



R. G. NICHOLAS. l SAFETY POCKET. APPLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1912.

Patented July '7, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PET ERS CO.. PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D, G

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS, OIE CLYDE, KANSAS.

SAFETY-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July "I, 1914.

Application filed. April 30, 1912. Serial No. 694,118.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT Gr. NICHOLAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clyde, in the county of Cloud and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safety pockets, and has particular reference to a pocket designed to constitute a part of a pair of overalls or other garment intended for use by workmen; and the invention aims prnnarily to provide a pocket in which the workman may carry his watch without liability of the same being dropped or lost.

The invention further aims to so constructthe pocket that a watch or the like disposed therein will be securely retained against loss, regardless of the manner in which the workman wearing the garment may stoop or bend.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apron of a pair of overalls, which apron is provided with a pocket constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the apron, by which the pocket embodying the present invention 1s carried, is indicated by the numeral 1 and has attached to it the usual shoulder straps, 2. The pocket is cut from a cloth blank which has parallel lateral edges 3 and t and a lower edge 5 which extends at right angles to the edges 3 and 4:. One upper corner of the blank is cut away, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, so that the blank has an upper edge portion 6 and a similar edge portion 7, which, however, extends in a line below the portion 6. These edge portions 6 and 7 are, however, parallel with respect to each other and with respect to the lower edge 5 of the blank. At the cut-away corner of the pocket blank, the edge portions 6 and 7 are connected by a vertical edge portion 8 extending preferably at right angles with respect thereto. The lateral edge portion 3 of the blank is secured to the apron 1 by a line of stitchlng 9, and the edge portion 4 is similarly secured to the apron by parallel lines of stitching 10. The portion of the blank between the two lines of stitching last-mentloned forms, in conjunction with the apron, a pencil-receiving pocket 11.

The lower edge portion of the pocket blank is secured by a line of stitching, as at 12, to the apron 1, and the edge portions 6 and 7 are secured respectively. by lines of stitching l3 and 1 1. The edge portion 8 is preferably hemmed and is not attached to the apron 1, so that it forms one wall of the mouth of the pocket, the mouth being vertically disposed, as readily understood. A relatively short line of stitching 15 extends from the point of juncture of the edge portions 7 and 8 of the blank toward the lower edge 5 thereof, and the blank is stitched to the apron 1 along a curved line, as at 16, and thence along a vertical line, as at 17. The line of stitching 16 extends from the inner one of the lines of stitching 10, at a point substantially opposite the point of juncture of the edge portions 7 and 8, to a point above the lower edge of the blank and approximately in a vertical line with the edge portion 8, the line of stitching 17 extending vertically from this last-mentioned point to the line of stitching 12. From the foregoing, it will be readily understood that the line of stitching 15 serves to restrict the pocket at a oint between the point of juncture of the edge portions 7 and 8 with each other and the point of juncture of the lines of stitching 16 and 17. It will further be understood that a watch inserted into the pocket will follow the curved line of stitching 16 and become lodged between the line of stitching 17 and the line of stitching 9 which secures the edge portion 3 to the apron 1. Should the apron be nearly inverted, the-.watch or other article in the pocket thereof would lodge in the recess between the lines of stitching 9, 14 and 15 and be retained, and it will also lodge in this recess should the workman bend to the right. Should he bend to the left, the watch would follow the line of stitching 16 and would lodge between this line and the line of stitching 6, but as the mouth of the pocket would then be horizontal, the watch would not be allowed to fall therefrom.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that there is provided a safety pocket which may be embodied in the construction of any garment, but is especially well adapted for embodiment in overalls or other garments designed primarily for wear by workmen;

and itwill be seen that regardless of the direction in which the workman wearing the garment, bends, "the watch or other article contained in the pocket will lodge in a recess from which it can not become acci-- dentally displaced.

What I claim is A pocket having a laterally resented vertically disposed opening at its upper end and a lateral extension below said opening,

the walls of the pocket being stitched tormately inline with the lower end of sald opening then extending downward and toward the lateral extension to a point spaced from but substantially in line beneath the lower end of the first line of stitching, said second line of stitching then extending downward to the bottom of the pocket approximately parallel with the side wall of said lateral extension.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

ROBERT G. NICHOLAS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

J. C. MURPHY, 'J. E. Toor.

Copies of this patent may be obtainedlor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G." 

